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Placer County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 14th highest paid in California
Claims
628
Total paid
$16.1M
Average / claim
$26K
Building / contents
$13.2M / $2.9M
Paid by decade
1970s$9K · 1 claims
1980s$2.0M · 109 claims
1990s$12.8M · 427 claims
2000s$272K · 34 claims
2010s$840K · 39 claims
2020s$175K · 18 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1995 | $11.1M | 297 claims |
| 1986 | $1.8M | 63 claims |
| 1997 | $1.3M | 80 claims |
| 2018 | $350K | 5 claims |
| 2012 | $219K | 11 claims |
Full disaster history for Placer County →
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Source: FEMA OpenFEMA, NFIP Redacted Claims v3 (OpenFEMA NfipClaims v3, retrieved 2026-09) — dollars actually paid on closed claims, summed from individual claim transactions. This is a record of the past. It is not a flood-risk forecast, an insurance rating, or a judgment about any specific property. For current risk see FEMA's Flood Map Service Center and National Risk Index.